Here is the most alienating fact about the Digital Nation we live in:
It incentivizes forms of engagement that make Americans feel less
empowered and more alone than ever, to the benefit of very few. It
seizes some of the best, noblest human instincts -- to share, to know,
to connect, to belong -- and harnesses them to a degrading system of
profit. Anesthetization to these conditions is dangerous. Cynicism and
powerlessness are the hallmarks of another form of digital life, an
authoritarian one Americans should badly want to avoid.